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United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
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Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention: | Mitchell Austin |
Staff Attorney
AD Office 3Information Technologies and Services
Re: Parsons Corporation
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed April 29, 2019
File No. 333-230833
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of our client, Parsons Corporation (the Company), we are hereby filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) Amendment No. 1 to the registration statement on Form S-1 (the Amendment No. 1). The Company previously filed a registration statement on Form S-1 on April 12, 2019 (the Registration Statement). The Amendment No. 1 has been revised to reflect the Companys responses to the comment letter to the Registration Statement received on April 23, 2019 from the staff of the Commission (the Staff). For your convenience, we are providing by overnight delivery a courtesy package that includes four clean copies of the Amendment No. 1 and four copies that have been marked to show changes from the Registration Statement, as well as a copy of this letter.
For ease of review, we have set forth below the comment from your letter in bold type followed by the Companys response thereto. Except for page numbers appearing in the headings and the Staffs comment below (which are references to the Registration Statement), all page references herein correspond to the relevant pages of the Amendment No. 1.
April 29, 2019
Page 2
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 2 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue Recognition, page F-10
1. | We note your response to prior comment 2. Please revise to explain the nature of the supervision services and the fact that you are not liable for construction of the asset. |
Response: In response to the Staffs comment, the Company has revised pages 92 and F-12 as reflected in Amendment No. 1 to explain the nature of the Companys supervision services and to clarify that the Company is not liable for construction of the asset.
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We hope the foregoing answer is responsive to your comment. Please do not hesitate to contact me by telephone at (213) 891-7421 or by fax at (213) 891-8763 with any questions or comments regarding this correspondence.
Very truly yours, |
/s/ Steven B. Stokdyk |
of LATHAM & WATKINS LLP |
cc: | Charles Harrington, Parsons Corporation |
George Ball, Parsons Corporation
Michael Kolloway, Parsons Corporation
Cathy Birkeland, Latham & Watkins LLP
Stewart McDowell, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Peter Wardle, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP